[dirtboy]

However, the GFDL, and the BAMD (both GFS-derived models) do show Wilma spending an extended amount of time over the Yucatan and sort of slowly drifting east, to south of Cuba; both models only run out 5 days and at 5 days the storm is still south of W Cuba heading nowhere in particular.

Recall that Mitch became a Cat 5 in 1998 about this time in the Western Caribbean and then stalled just off Honduras.

[janetjanet998]

a 1 nm wide eye?.....if someone told me that before i would of said that was impossible

[Sam Cree]

"Recall that Mitch became a Cat 5 in 1998 about this time in the Western Caribbean and then stalled just off Honduras."

Yes. And then went flying through the upper Keys as a tropical storm or cat one, I forget which. I could hear the thunder and see the skies lighting up from my house in South Dade.